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From updates on collaborative partnership agreements to exciting scientific and technological discoveries, our regional labs are carrying out cutting-edge R&D projects on a daily basis to better our place in the global market. Read up on the latest news, events and activities from the FLC %1 regional laboratories.

NIST Physicist Scott Diddams views the NIST frequency comb designed to ensure the precision of starlight analysis at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas (Photo credit: NIST).

A student capstone team from Michigan Technological University gets a close look at a maritime rescue helicopter during an Oct. 19, 2018, team gathering. The group is collaborating with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Coast Guard to design a compact, high-capacity maritime rescue device. (Photo courtesy of Mark Bobal, U.S. Coast Guard)

CO2 release by mild heating of the BIG-bicarbonate solid. The released CO2 gas is trapped in the orange balloon, while the released water vapors are trapped by condensation in the ice-cooled U-shaped tube. (Photo credit: Neil J. Williams and Erick Holguin)